Beatles’ cars — Ringo Starr’s Facel-Vega coming to an auction near you

A 1964 Facel Vega once owned by Ringo Starr is coming up for auction at Bonhams in London December 1. It’s a right-hand drive car, powered by a 6.7-liter Chrysler-derived V8 and it will probably go faster than even Ringo’s sticks on the snare drum. Bonhams thinks the car will fetch as much as $566,000, according to this Los Angeles Times piece.

Sales of celebrity cars invariably do well — we are something of a celebrity-worshipping world, after all — and other Beatles cars have been snapped up the minute they hit the auction block. A year ago, RM Auctions got $496,613 for Paul McCartney’s 1964 Aston Martin DB5. And three months ago, John Lennon’s first car, a 1965 Ferrari 330GT he bought shortly after he passed his driver’s license test, was sold by Bonhams for about $576,000.